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- nilsnihil0
Real Knockouts is about all those "other aspects of gender-role training" that make women easy, and easily rationalized, targets for men's violence (see esp. Chap 1, "Balls vs. Ovaries"). I say in the book that most attacks against women don't even get to the point where a physical fight takes place. Self-defense training challenges the gender-role training you're talking about and gets women to question the culture of male power over women. What amazed me was the way training in self-defense helped women feel more confident in all sorts of situations with men, in which an attack and a response of self-defense wasn't even the issue. This shouldn't surprise anyone who believes that rape culture keeps women in line and keeps all men privileged, whether or not an individual woman in the rape culture gets attacked and whether to not an individual man attacks a woman.
- esp chap 1, ffs.nilsnihil
- Your own personal musings?Jnr_Madison
- does this place has a rape culture?Fariska
- http://web.archive.o…nilsnihil
- Self-defense classes are strange to me, unless you are serious about them and take them for a long time.juhls
- I had some training in gym class, of course, and I doubt the boys had to do anything similar.juhls